• Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2005
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 15
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Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 161 Ratings

  • Starring: Chris Rock, Tichina Arnold, Tyler James Williams
  • Summary: Chris Rock narrates this comedic look back on his childhood in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the early 1980s. It is being compared by critics to classic series such as "The Wonder Years" and "The Cosby Show."
  • Genre(s): Comedy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 32
  2. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. 100
    [A] rare work of brilliance.
  2. It's one of the best new shows from any network this year, and is a total, almost giddy delight from start to finish.
  3. 80
    So far, Everybody Hates Chris has felt like a textbook example of how you fold a comedian’s sensibility into a familiar TV genre.
  4. 50
    What's missing here are the big laughs, despite Rock's clever narration.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 88 out of 106
  2. Negative: 15 out of 106
  1. SaaraS
    10
    This show is the best show in the whole world I love it to bits!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. A very clever funny show that is both original and fun to watch. It has references to the present about the past and references to those great 80s moments that they relive. For example Chris tries to go to a Run DMC concert and when he misses it, Greg tells him Aerosmith was there and sang Walk this way. Very classic 80s moment. Expand
  3. JohnM
    7
    great show in the beginning, but I don't see it lasting another season. As a previous poster mentioned, they seem to have run out of ideas about Cris' past, and are now ad-libbing it. Great cast, and excellent narraration from Chris. Will miss it. Collapse
  4. AustinW
    4
    The pilot was nothing new. Not edgy at all (like Rock's standup). Seemed like "Good Times" for a new generation... which, nostalgia aside, is not a good thing. Expand

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